The Long Song
Murray Gold
Won't Be Broken
Keane
Somewhere Only We Know
Keane
All For Love
Serena Ryder
Dare You
Hardwell ft. Matthew Koma
Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Wang Chung
Champagne Supernova
Oasis
Crazy For You
Hedley
Ghost
Mystery Skulls
Burn It Down
Linkin Park
Twilight Zone
Golden Earring
Crazy Train
Ozzy Osbourne
F.U.
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
High Hopes
Kodaline
November Rain
Guns N' Roses
Before Monsters Come
J Rice
Team
Lorde
Beautiful Day
U2
My Immortal
Evanescence
Magic In The Air
Magic System ft. Chawki
Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd
Young Blood
The Naked And Famous
Refine
Bestfriends
One Minute More
Capital Cities
The Hand That Feeds
Nine Inch Nails
Wonderwall
Oasis
On Our Way
The Royal Concept
Hurt
Nine Inch Nails
Unknown From M.E.
Marlon Saunders & Dred Foxx
Happy
Pharrell Williams
Way Back When
Kodaline
Dangerous Times
Wildlife
Centerfold
The J. Geils Band
Infinite Potential
Murray Gold
The Riddle
Gigi D'Agostino
Before The Night Ends
Yanni ft. Leslie Mills
Reflektor
Arcade Fire
Say Something
A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
U2
How Soon Is Now?
The Smiths
Summer Of '69
Bryan Adams
Anything Goes
Classified ft. Saukrates & Skratch Bastid
Somewhere Only We Know
City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)
John Parr
She's So High
Tal Bachman
On A Roll
Icona Pop
What It Is
Mark Knopfler
Sunday Bloody Sunday
U2
Lose Yourself
Eminem
Ratchet
Bloc Party
Into The Blue
Kylie Minogue
Rather Be
Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne
Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)
Cinderella
Dark Again
Gold Fields
Head Like A Hole
Nine Inch Nails
Five Nights At Freddy's
The Living Tombstone
Pour Some Sugar On Me
Def Leppard
Epilogue (Taegukgi)
Lee Dong-june
All Comes Down
Kodaline
Amnesia
Chumbawamba
With Or Without You
U2
Runaway Train
Soul Asylum
Loadsamoney (Doin' Up The House)
Harry Enfield
Here Comes The Sun
The Beatles
Look Away
Chicago
Hearts Like Ours
The Naked And Famous
Do I Wanna Know?
Arctic Monkeys
Pretend That You're Alone
Keane
Velvet Morning
The Verve
Classic
MKTO
Mozart's House
Clean Bandit ft. Love Ssega
Unacceptable Condition
Thenamelessavenger
Forever
Jia Peng Fang
Stab Variation
Tim Hecker
Welcome To The Jungle
Guns N' Roses
Sussudio
Phil Collins
Dust In The Wind
Kansas
Airplanes
B.o.B. ft. Hayley Williams
Dreaming Out Loud (V.F.)
Final State
Welcome To Freddy's
Madame Macabre
Escapee
Architecture In Helsinki
Silenced By The Night
Keane
Creep
Radiohead
Stompa
Serena Ryder
Mr. Brightside
The Killers
Dashboard
Modest Mouse
Losing My Religion
R.E.M.
Walking On The Sun
Smash Mouth
Steady
Act As If
Don't Stop The Party
Pitbull ft. TJR
The Reason
Hoobastank
Keep Me By Your Side
Act As If
Pokémon Johto
PJ Lequerica
If Only
Hanson
I Feel Better
Gotye
Bla Bla Bla
Gigi D'Agostino
Kick Ass
Egypt Central
Latch
Disclosure ft. Sam Smith
A Highway Shall Be There
Lowercase Noises
Chasing Cars
Snow Patrol
Author's Notes
2014 was the year the Billie Charts project really found its footing. After spending most of 2013 trying to figure out what shape it would take, the only thing I had to do in 2014 was keep trucking on.
This year carries on the trends of 2013 for the most part, but there are some evolutions. We still are very much inundated in 80s, 90s and even 00s nostalgia, but newer artists are starting to make headways. Most notable of all are Kodaline, an indie pop band that debuted the previous year, and notched 3 hits in this year-end, and The Naked and Famous, who landed 2 hits in the list. Both of those bands will go on to become staples in following years.
Among the other notable success stories in 2015, we have: Keane, who had a solid presence through spring and summer 2014 and landed 2 of the biggest hits of the year; U2 who landed 4 hit songs between May and September 2014; and Nine Inch Nails, which had a solid showing in Fall 2014. These bands will see some more success in the next few years.
Another trend of note that begins this year are songs pushed by media I was into. Murray Gold notched the biggest hit of the year, The Long Song, as well as another hit thanks to Doctor Who being one of my favorite new discoveries that year. Five Nights At Freddy's also had a pretty solid year, notching 2 fan songs in the top 100 with The Living Tombstone and Madame Macabre's offerings. Songs like J Rice's Before Monsters Come and Sonic Adventure's Unknown from M.E. make big appearances this year, but their chart runs were not to my recollection propelled by their respective franchises.
The ban on instrumentals was lifted this year, and it had a fairly immediate impact on my charts. Jia Peng Fang's Forever, Lee dong-june's Epilogue, Lowercase Noises' A Highway Shall be There, and Tim Hecker's Stab Variation all had a solid amount of success. They also did not overshadow my ability to seek out songs with lyrics, which had been my initial reasoning for the ban.